Salvia farinacea (mealycup sage, var: "Blue Bedder") and Bombus (bumblebee)

A very, urban bumblebee 'cruises the Strip' looking for lunch (just like all the people walking by) and then BINGO - it's your lucky day!

Lucky for both of us. This café has a lovely display of blue sage in a planter box and it's right next to my table. Now, where's that camera?

Lilium lancifolium syn. L. tigrinum (tiger lily, lance-leafed lily, var: "Splendens")

Tiger lilies always like to 'dress to impress' 'and this clump at the entrance of a local golf course is putting on quite a show. This cultivar "Splendens" has been bred for heavy flowering and can produce up to twenty five blooms a season from a single stalk! If you plant three of them, the bulbs will reproduce sideways and you'll have a show garden full of tiger lilies in about ten years time.

The scientific name of the tiger lily used to be Lilium tigrinum, which makes sense because tigris is Latin for tiger. However it was later discovered that an earlier botanist had named this species Lilium lancifolium from the Latin lancea ("lance") + folium ("leaf"). In the hothouse world of botanical taxonomy. precedence matters, and (seriously) naming rights can make or break a botanist's career. Not that these beautiful tiger lilies, basking in the afternoon sunshine, really give a hoot about botanists call them.

tag the oc who was originally a fandom based oc (and perhaps talk about what they were like before being reworked)

Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific

i love tiny bug type pokemon so much theyre like the best things ever

if pokemon were real i wouldnt have depression id just have a bunch of bugs in the pockets of my cargo pants

in pokemon this would be me

Pokemon Heritage Post

Obsessed with the wording here

Guy who transforms into a swarm of locusts when shaken vigorously: hey can you turn the music down it's resonating kind of hard and shaking the ground and I don't want to endanger anyone

DJ Loudmusic: SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THESE SICK JAMS! HERE'S MY NEXT SONG, "EPIC JUNGLE BEAT THAT GIVES LOCUSTS THE DESIRE TO KILL HUMAN BEINGS"

CALL YOUR BOY LIBRARY BOOKS THE WAY IM CHECKING HIM OUT

CALL YOUR BOY A HARDCOVER THE WAY I’M TAKING OFF HIS JACKET

CALL YOUR BOY A BOOK THE WAY I WANT TO GET BETWEEN HIS COVERS

CALL YOUR BOY A BOOK THE WAY IM RUNNING MY FINGERS ALONG HIS SPINE

CALL HIM AN E-READER THE WAY IM TURNING HIM ON

CALL HIM MORE FUNDING FOR LIBRARIES THE WAY EVERYONE WANTS HIM

i enjoy shamelessly normalizing medications. i enjoy saying things like “give me a couple of hours, my meds haven’t kicked in yet” and “sorry, my meds have worn off and im not feeling great” in normal conversations regardless of the company. ive never met a single person who talks about their medications, and i enjoy just dropping comments that make it seem normal.

this old post of mine is picking up speed and i’ve noticed now that it is cut short.

so here, my belated addition: i enjoy making medications (and the action of talking about them) seem normal, because they are.

Helianthus annuus (sunflower)

Sunflowers were first domesticated in the southeastern US about five thousand years ago. A thousand years later they were being grown as a food crop from South America to southern Canada. Many indigenous peoples used the sunflower as a symbol of the solar deity. The Aztecs in Mexico and the Incas in South America often represented sunflowers as stone motifs in their temples.

Sunflowers arrived in Europe in 1510 and they were an instant sensation. Nowadays Russia and the Ukraine are the largest producers of sunflowers in the world, grown mostly for cooking oil. However as per usual, plant breeders have produced umpteen cultivars and the Royal Horticultural Society has given the Award of Garden Merit to no less than 46 different varieties of sunflowers.

These particular sunflowers are a horse of a different color. They seem to challenge my concept of what a sunflower should look like. After all, isn't a sunflower supposed to be yellow? You know, like the sun.

that little voice you hear while grocery shopping saying you don’t need a snack for later is the devil btw

we all have that one homie who volunteers to take first watch that they might contemplate the heavens in solitude

Fool that he is, not realizing that it then falls to him to comfort the party member most troubled by their burdens when sleep eludes them.

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Foeniculum vulgare (fennel) and Sceliphron caementarium (yellow-legged mud-dauber wasp)

Fennel was originally a Mediterranean plant but it has now become 'naturalized' in many parts of world and is a common sight in the suburb of Vancouver where I live. In its native habitat, it favors locations with dry soil, near the sea-coast or on a sunny riverbank.

Fennel is a hardy, perennial herb used in the cuisines of many countries and is grown in positively industrial quantities. India alone produces over 600,000 metric tones of fennel a year. Alexander the Great may have introduced this plant to India in 325 BC.

As for the yellow-legged mud-dauber wasp, it's native to North and Central America but has now become 'naturalized' throughout the world, including the Mediterranean basin. Theoretically, I could have taken these photos in fennel's home environment on one of the Greek islands. Welcome to globalization.